898 Quotes About Independence
- Author Mae West
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Marriage is a fine institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
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- Author Mary Wollstonecraft
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I do not wish them [women] to have power over men; but over themselves.
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- Author Mary Wollstonecraft
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My own sex, I hope, will excuse me, if I treat them like rational creatures, instead of flattering their fascinating graces, and viewing them as if they were in a state of perpetual childhood, unable to stand alone.
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- Author Michael Bassey Johnson
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If you truly want to be respected by people you love, you must prove to them that you can survive without them.
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- Author Charles Bukowski
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there’s nothing todiscussthere’s nothing torememberthere’s nothing toforgetit’s sadand it’s notsadseems themost sensiblethinga person can doissitwith drink inhandas the wallswavetheir goodbyesmilesone comes throughit allwith a certain amount ofefficiency andbraverythenleavessome acceptthe possibility ofGodto help themgetthroughotherstake itstaight onand to theseI drink tonight.
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- Author Charlotte Brontë
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I am not an angel," I asserted; "and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself.
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- Author Flannery O'Connor
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In yourself right now is all the place you've got.
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- Author Hugo Hamilton
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Maybe your country is only a place you make up in your own mind. Something you dream about and sing about. Maybe it's not a place on the map at all, but just a story full of people you meet and places you visit, full of books and films you've been to. I'm not afraid of being homesick and having no language to live in. I don't have to be like anyone else. I'm walking on the wall and nobody can stop me.
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- Author Theodore Roosevelt
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I am an American; free born and free bred, where I acknowledge no man as my superior, except for his own worth, or as my inferior, except for his own demerit.
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